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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · Jul 1

Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.

Experimentology cover: title and curves for distributions.

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Dave Hardisty @dhardisty.bsky.social · Jun 23

The poll numbers that matter: www.vancouverisawesome.com/local-news/p...

@carlbergstrom.com

Poll: Vancouverites are pro-crow

Crows are mostly well-liked in Vancouver

www.vancouverisawesome.com

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Dave Hardisty @dhardisty.bsky.social · May 31

Great study! Really interesting that the previous findings are now reversed. We need more replication (& extension) studies like this in the social sciences!

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Christopher Petsko @chrispetsko.bsky.social · May 30

My co-authors and I just published a paper!

Our questions?🤔

(1) Whether a gender bias that was first documented 20 years ago would replicate, and if so...

(2) Whether its magnitude would depend on whether the women in question were Black rather than White.

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Dave Hardisty @dhardisty.bsky.social · May 30

Seems the White House is using gen AI to write their scientific reports, leading to the hallucinations and mistakes you'd expect. Laughing/crying right now.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...

White House Health Report Included Fake Citations

www.nytimes.com

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Science Magazine @science.org · May 8

Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.

Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions

Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund

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Dave Hardisty @dhardisty.bsky.social · Apr 30

Also check out this excellent Data Colada post if you haven't already:
datacolada.org/124
@urisohn.bsky.social reanalyzed the AER paper data and concluded that the key results were mainly driven by confused participants.

[124] "Complexity": 75% of participants missed comprehension questions in AER paper critiquing Prospect Theory - Data Colada

Kahneman and Tversky’s (1979) “Prospect Theory” article is the most cited paper in the history of economics, and it won Kahneman the Nobel Prize in 2002. Among other things, it predicts that people ar...

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · Apr 7

Climate Terminology Does Not Matter

Across tens of thousands of participants in two large-scale experiments, we found that labeling climate change in different ways had no effect on their stated willingness to act.
jayvanbavellab.substack.com/p/climate-te...

via @dgoldwert.bsky.social

Climate Terminology Does Not Matter

Our new paper finds that swapping out one climate term for another does not meaningfully change people’s stated commitment to fight climate change

jayvanbavellab.substack.com

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Dave Hardisty @dhardisty.bsky.social · Feb 25

Chegg, notorious resource for student cheating, is mad that Google is copying its answers.

Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · Feb 25

Edtech company Chegg has filed a lawsuit against Google and its owner Alphabet, alleging that the search giant’s #AI Overviews hurt its online traffic. According to Chegg, the Overviews retain traffic that historically came to its website, “materially impacting” the company’s revenue and employees.

Edtech Chegg sues Google over alleged loss caused by AI

Chegg's losses are forcing the company to consider being acquired, it said.

www.siliconrepublic.com

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Dave Hardisty @dhardisty.bsky.social · Jan 30

Are you running AB testing studies on Facebook or Google? Or reviewing papers using them?
Check out our open access paper, On the Persistent Mischaracterization of Google and Facebook A/B Tests: How to Conduct and Report Online Platform Studies at doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...
@boegershausen.bsky.social

Redirecting

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Jan 14

IMPORTANT: If you live in the United States or Canada, you’ve probably heard Trump‘s constant claim that the United States is “subsidizing” Canada. It’s wrong of course, but here’s the best explanation I’ve seen about how & why it’s wrong. PLEASE WATCH & SHARE IT A LOT. Kudos to Andrew Chang & CBC.

Is Trump right about the U.S. 'subsidizing' Canada? | About That

YouTube video by CBC News

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · Dec 4

Underreported: Elon just picked the head of NASA—a massive conflict-of-interest that will damage a government entity that he partners with, depends on, and in some cases competes with. The nominated NASA director is a high-school dropout billionaire who is pals with Musk. He has no business at NASA.

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Dave Hardisty @dhardisty.bsky.social · Dec 4

Great write-up! Thank you!

Dave Hardisty @dhardisty.bsky.social · Dec 1

JDM pub:
Intertemporal choice questions are usually like "Receive $10 now, or $15 next month?" Yet real-life decisions usually involve a mix of negatives and positives. Do mixed-valence questions better predict real-life behaviours? No! go.shr.lc/3OG36rz
@yeli.bsky.social @sjdm-tweets.bsky.social

Assessing patience and predictivity validity for mixed sign intertemporal choices | Judgment and Decision Making | Cambridge Core

Assessing patience and predictivity validity for mixed sign intertemporal choices - Volume 19

go.shr.lc

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Nov 29

Black Friday Deal Alert!

Enjoy our current atmospheric CO₂ because we'll never see it this low again!

$A graph depicting the global monthly mean carbon dioxide (CO2) levels from 1980 to 2024, showing a steady increase in CO2 mole fraction measured in parts per million (ppm), with data points represented by red dots and a trend line.$

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Jamie Cummins @jamiecummins.bsky.social · Jul 23

Introducing RegCheck: a tool which uses Large Language Models to automatically compare preregistered protocols with their corresponding published papers and highlights deviations.

@malte.the100.ci @ianhussey.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci @bjoernhommel.bsky.social

regcheck.app

RegCheck.app

RegCheck is an AI tool to compare preregistrations with papers instantly.

regcheck.app

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Stephanie M. Lee @stephaniemlee.bsky.social · Nov 19

the fallout from the Francesca Gino research misconduct scandal isn't over. @engber.bsky.social writes about how an effort by some of her colleagues to self-audit their work with her ended up raising even more questions — for them personally and their whole field www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

The Business-School Scandal That Just Keeps Getting Bigger

The rot runs deeper than almost anyone has guessed.

www.theatlantic.com

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koenfucius @koenfucius.bsky.social · Nov 17

The superendowment effect—research by Winegar and Sunstein finds users would demand $80 to share personal data, but pay only $5 to keep them private. This raises questions over the reliability of WTP/WTA to gauge the welfare significance of giving up or maintaining privacy: https://buff.ly/3Oa5jvr

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Dave Hardisty @dhardisty.bsky.social · Nov 16

Prof Kai Chan and I are recruiting a PhD student to start at UBC starting in Fall 2025, to work on Green Death Care and Relationships with Nature. Looking for applicants with a background in survey and experimental design and analysis. Dec 15 application. deadline. Details: www.grad.ubc.ca/ad/58334

Green Deathcare and Relationships to Nature

We are seeking a PhD student to conduct surveys and behavioural experiments about green deathcare practices. This work is targeted at improving the uptake of sustainable and conservation-oriented deat...

www.grad.ubc.ca

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Andrew Porter @retropz.bsky.social · Oct 17

For any new @bsky.app users who are interested in #ResearchIntegrity matters, I've got a #StarterPack for you to help build your #Bluesky feed:

go.bsky.app/5NJ9Z4N

I like this method for finding new people to follow and interact with. And do let me know if you'd like to be added to the list

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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · Nov 5

Hi there. We're Retraction Watch -- retractionwatch.com -- and we've joined Bluesky.

Retraction Watch

Tracking retractions as a window into the scientific process

retractionwatch.com

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Dave Hardisty @dhardisty.bsky.social · Nov 1

Thanks for the great Keynote, Jiaying!! You make me come alive!
#BigDifferenceBC

Dave Hardisty @dhardisty.bsky.social · Oct 31

BIG Difference BC starts tomorrow at 9am Pacific Time!
* Free online conference on behavioural insights for good
* Keynote on "Nudging Climate Action & Happiness" by Prof Jiaying Zhao
* Program: bigdifferencebc.ca/program-2024
* Registration link: bit.ly/BDBC2024regi...

Hope to see you there!

2024 Program — BIG Difference BC

bigdifferencebc.ca

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Andrew Mercer @awmercer.bsky.social · Oct 18

It’s insane that I got all the way through getting a PhD before I encountered equivalence tests. These should be part of every intro stats curriculum that covers NHST.

Dr Mircea Zloteanu ☀️ 🌊🌴 @mzloteanu.bsky.social · Oct 18

#statstab #205 Equivalence Tests Using {marginaleffects}

Thoughts: Easily testing for "no effect" is important. Here's a tutorial by @carlislerainey using @VincentAB r pkg.

#equivalencetests #equivalence #TOST #marginaleffects #tutorial #nullresults #r

www.carlislerainey.com/blog/2023-08...

Equivalence Tests with {marginaleffects}

Reproducing the Clark and Golder (2006) example from Rainey (2014)

www.carlislerainey.com

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Anna Reuter @anna-reuter.de · Oct 1

Something like this?

Repeat after me meme: Phoebe tries to make Joey say 'Finish our papers before starting new papers', but Joey ends up with 'Let's start talking about new papers'

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